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Sony launches new version of the best cheap 4K Blu-ray player that drops the streaming tech – but the price looks odd (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

My number 1 requirement is being able to disable HDR, my sets don't implement it correctly and HDR content is unwatchable because of it.

The only fix is to disable it on the device as the sets don't have that option.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Now I'm genuinely curious: what if you get a super-old and cheap HDMI cable? I'm talking like HDMI 1.2 or 1.4. What are the chances that your tv will be able to process whatever resolution video but not receive enough information to interpret HDR?

    Or, it'll likely be more like running gigabit from a cheap router over Cat3 or paired Cat1 where the high frequency generates so much noise on the low-quality unshielded twists of cable that it struggles to assign any standards and you end up with nothing.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    The cable would still need to do 4K though...

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I think 1.4 does 4K @30Hz. Anyway, I could have sworn most TVs have the ability to turn off HDR, or at least have picture modes incompatible with HDR. Loophole, baby!

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Yeah, Samsung not so much. The non-HDR picture is vibrant and gorgeous. The HDR is dark, muddy, and unwatchable.

    Fortunately all the devices I have feeding them have the option to disable it.

    Example:

    HDR On:

    HDR Off:

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My LG TV was similar and I had to go digging in the settings to mess with brightness, backlight and black detail. Anything that was dark on HDR was just black and I had to go in and up the black detail and brightness/contrast settings

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